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Demistifying distributed ledger technology

Deutsche Bank interviews leading industry experts at companies such as IBM, ConsenSys, Digital Asset, Hyperledger, uPort and R3 to find out how DLT technology will change our lives.

Definitive conclusions include:

The technology behind the decentralised transaction register has the potential to boost trade and prosperity. The technology could have a tremendous impact on major areas that influence our everyday life, such as law and regulation, financial services and healthcare. The distribution of the ledger means cyber security will become even more crucial in the future.

The Eurosystem project to consolidate TARGET2 and T2S and to meet changing market needs by enabling a truly real-time 24x7 settlement infrastructure for cash, securities and collateral aims at increasing efficiencies and optimising liquidity management across all TARGET Services.

The payments community is well used to the abundance of acronyms that has become its legislation of late, but less so to the grey overlaps between various directives and standards - least of all Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) within the online and e-commerce payment experience.